Our Afghanistan Strategy: Sh*tloads of Cash

And there was someone out there who somehow didn't believe this is what was happening? I'm confused by this (via the Post):

Military-led probe cites "credible evidence" that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation contract that the United States has funded in part to promote Afghan businesses.

The unreleased investigation provides definitive evidence that corruption puts U.S. transportation money into enemy hands, a finding consistent with previous inquiries carried out by Congress, other federal agencies and the military. Yet U.S. and Afghan efforts to address the problem have been slow and ineffective, and all eight of the trucking firms involved in the work remain on U.S. payroll. In March, the Pentagon extended the contract for six months.

Think about this one, from a strictly national security perspective: If we're putting cash (FRNs, bitch) into Afghanistan (and trust me, we are, like trying to build a $1 million TV studio to live-stream updates from the frontlines to CNN - genius!), who supplies us that cash? An independent, third party called the Federal Reserve.

And if you dare go looking deeper at the "bails of $100s" being pumped out of this independent third party, you could get fired, shunned and/or otherwise targeted. Or just stalked obsessively.